Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allow passing extra options to initdb for tests
Date: 2024-02-14 07:50:19
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaEyBZ-koC3t6r6PT_G_uL_rckyaMUgCV_oDkp+Ztc=TQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 4:24 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> I think this can be useful for a wide variety of uses, like running all
> tests with checksums enabled, or with JIT enabled, or with different GUC
> settings, or with different locale settings. (The existing pg_regress
> --no-locale option is essentially a special case of this, but it only
> provides one particular locale setting, not things like changing the
> default provider etc.)
>
> Of course, not all tests are going to pass with arbitrary options, but
> it is useful to run this against specific test suites.

+1.

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Robert Haas
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